Bremen Citizens' Association
The Bremen Citizens' Association existed during the German Revolution from 1848 until it was banned in 1852. In Bremen there were and have been local citizen associations since 1872.
History of the Bremen Citizens' Association
The Bremen Citizens' Association was founded on January 17, 1848. Initially it had 204 members. The master carpenter Cord Wischmann was elected the first president of the association. In addition to Wischmann, the teachers Christian Friedrich Feldmann and Heinrich Kotzenberg, the book printer Emil Meyer and other master carpenters were the leading representatives of the movement. During the March Revolution and the German Revolution of 1848 and 1849, the club in Bremen took the lead in the revolution. The Euphrosyne Society , in which numerous democratic revolutionaries were represented , had a strong influence on the Bremen Citizens' Association.
On March 8, 1848, the eloquent Wischmann represented a resolution (also known as the March petition ) before the Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen , which demanded new freedoms in Bremen. His flaming inaugural speech at the North German Crafts Congress on June 2, 1848, which was directed against the Prussian industrial policy and against the "enslavement of labor by capital", attracted attention. The resulting liberal citizens' convention set up a deputation for a new Bremen constitution . The constitutional discussion that followed was strongly influenced by these ranks and the new constitution came into force in 1849, in which many of the desired rights (fundamental rights, separation of powers, influence of the citizens as the Bremen parliament) were realized.
On March 29, 1849, several representatives from the Bremen Citizens Association came to the new Bremen Citizenship . Feldmann was elected member and president of the Bremen citizenship in March 1849 and to the Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen in 1849.
The new, democratically elected citizenship was dissolved by the Senate in March 1852 without any legal basis. After the end of the revolution, the Senate also banned the Bremen Citizens' Association in 1852.
Aftermath
The conservative bourgeoisie, elected by eight-class suffrage, worked out a new constitution by 1854, which, however, was based on the liberal constitution of 1849.
Wischmann († 1857) was Vice President of the Bremen Chamber of Commerce from 1855 to 1857 , Feldmann († 1883) remained a senator until 1878.
The citizens' associations in Bremen
Only after 1872 or 1875 were there further civic associations in Bremen in various parts of the city or district such as
- the Neustädter Bürgererverein from 1872 (or 1875),
- the citizens' association of the old town from 1876
- the civic associations of 1876 or 1879 in the eastern and northern suburbs,
- the civic association for the western suburb from 1894,
- the Blumenthal Citizens' Association from 1901,
- the civic association of the Bahnhofsvorstadt from 1902, later called the Findorff civic association
- the citizens' association for the suburb of Woltmershausen
- the Hohentorsvorstadt citizens' association from 1903, founded by the teacher Ludwig Schierenbeck,
- the citizens' association Lüssum from 1904,
- the citizens' association Oslebshausen from 1906,
- the Rönnebeck citizens' association from 1907,
- the citizens' association on the left bank of the Weser from 1911, as an amalgamation of the citizens' associations of Neustadt, Hohentorsvorstadt and von Woltmershausen, which was renamed in 1921 as the Neustadt citizens' association .
- the Horn Citizens' Association from 1926
- the Borgfeld Citizens' Association from 1958.
The citizens' associations work for the improvement of their districts and their housing supply, for the concerns of the commercial middle class as well as for cultural, educational and social concerns. In the 19th century, the citizens' associations supported a larger number of members of the Bremen citizenship who came from the fourth grade (see also eight class voting rights ) of the “other voters” with low incomes. In 1938 the citizens' associations were banned by the National Socialists and re-established after 1945.
Today (as of 2010) there are civic associations in Bremen in Blumenthal , Borgfeld , Grambke-Burg and in Werderland , as well as in Horn-Lehe , Lüssum-Bockhorn , Oberneuland-Rockwinkel , Oslebshausen , Rönnebeck and in the western suburb for the districts of Walle and Gröpelingen .
Association
Twelve civic associations are united in the Association of Bremen civic associations , including two civic associations from Osterholz-Scharmbeck and Syke . The association was founded around 1899. He too was banned in 1838. In 1968 he carried out the 6th German Citizens' Day in Bremen, which dealt with lowering the voting age to 18 years.
literature
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .